Word: mirror
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brown's fit of pique led the normally pro-Labor Daily Mirror, whose 5,000,000 circulation makes it London's largest tabloid, to take off after him. "The trouble about Mr. Brown is not that he drinks too much," said the Mirror, "but that he shouldn't drink at all. Genial George was born with so much natural ebullience that all it needs is a splash of soda to make his behavior intolerable. A double soda will, at the drop of a hat, make George the life and soul of the party...
Just as the Mirror's attack was extraordinary, so was Brown's response. In a rebuttal on BBC-TV, a totally unrepentant Brown asked, in effect: What was all the fuss about? "I'm not prelending that I don't drink alcohol," he said. "I work jolly hard, many hours a day, and I don't do other things that people might frown on. If you want a Foreign Secretary who does not do anything wrong, I am not the guy you want-and I reckon the fellow you get will not be a very...
...Ever since she was born she has had this style of her own; she has never had to copy anybody," says her approving mother. British Photographer David Bailey, whose early pictures of Jean Shrimpton helped launch her career and who recently shot Penelope for London's Sunday Mirror, concurs. "She's really weird," he says, "almost a caricature of a model. She is a completely original-looking girl, and that is such a nice shock these days...
...first experimental Magic Mirror, backed by the French fashion magazine Elle, has just gone into operation at the Paris department store Au Printemps. A second will be used later this month on the liner La France for trans-atlantic haute couture showings-if a passenger's measurements are already on record in Paris, the dress she selects will be ready when she gets there. Price of the mirror and accompanying projection system...
Audio-Visuel France expects to receive an American patent this month, plans to market Magic Mirror in the U.S. soon afterward. For American teen-agers who shop with their mothers, the system will hold a surprise blessing. Said an appreciative young mademoiselle, after a painless session in front of the mirror at Au Printemps: "Now Mother can say no before I go to the trouble of trying on an outfit and falling completely in love with...